The challenge at CAS Watercolour this month is fall leaves. Awhile back I had seen this video and wanted to give it a try. It's called "watercolor dip" and involves soaking your die cut in water and then dropping colors onto the wet piece. So I die cut a bunch of leaves from watercolor paper, soaked them and started adding colors. It was fun and fast to do. After they were dry, I added the gold embossed veins.
For the card on the left, I used a distress oxide background and the one on the right is just some watercolours. I can't decide which one I like better so am entering both.
I am also entering my cards at Dies R Us where the challenge is "leaves" and Happy Little Stampers challenge which is watercolour with a twist of gold.
Thanks for stopping by and your comments make my day.
Both cards are just beautiful Betty! Thanks so much for playing in our ‘Leaves’ challenge at Dies R Us! Please come back again soon!
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Such a neat effect with that technique, Betty--still need to try it! Both cards are scrumptious!
ReplyDeleteTwo fall beauties, Betty! I love the splotches of yellow on card 1 and the white frame on card 2!!
ReplyDeleteFabulous Betty! Love the colours! Have a great week! Luv & Hugs. Hazel xx
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Thank you Betty for sharing your "Water Dip" technique and your 2 gorgeous Fall coloured leaves and watercoloured backgrounds. I am glad you shared both on our CAS Watercolour challenge. Hugs...
ReplyDeleteso pretty Betty. love the soft watercoloured background. It looks wonderful
ReplyDeleteso pretty, I love the distress oxide watercolour background ant those leaves are awesome. thanks for Joining us at CAS Watercolour :)
ReplyDeleteGreat technique Betty your cards are beautiful. Thanks for the heads up on this challenge blog.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards both of them....great colours. And a pretty little leaf
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are gorgeous! Like the leaf technique idea! Thanks for the inspiration! :)
ReplyDeleteBoth are so beautiful! I can see why you couldn't decide which one you liked best. Love that watercolour dip technique and adding the veins with gold embossing. Thanks so much for joining us at CAS Watercolour!
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are gorgeous, Betty. I LOVE the mix of colours you've used for your background and for your leaves ... so beautiful! The gold veins add even more shiny goodness. Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Watercolour! xx
ReplyDeleteBeautifully created, love your pretty soft backgrounds! Thank you for joining our challenge at Dies R us!
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Gorgeous background and leaves. Thanks for sharing your design with us at Dies R Us Challenge Blog. We hope you will join us again in future challenges.
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Both of these are equally beautiful, Betty! I'd forgotten about this technique. I need to give it a try! It makes for some gorgeous fall leaves! Thanks so much for sharing these with us at CAS Watercolour!
ReplyDeleteBoth of your cards are beautiful, Betty. Thank you for sharing the technique! x
ReplyDeleteFantastic cards and what a fun technique Betty. I might have to give it a try.
ReplyDeleteOh Betty, I'm so embarrassed that I fell so far behind on my visits...your cards are absolutely GORGEOUS! Both of your backgrounds work so well with your leaves and your autumn color palette is beautiful...so worthy of a shout out at the CAS Watercoloring Challenge :)
ReplyDeleteLovely cards! Beautiful colours and leaves. Thank you for sharing your cards at Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge.
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